dont starve together, need help learning how to mod properly

[Lalaoz]

so ive been looking all over the internet for pages on how to mod DST, so far the only guides ive found don't give me enough information. I need to know how to do specific things. like detect which character the player is when they pick an item and which script I need to edit if its not the "pickable" script. long story short I'm trying to make a character that can compete with Maxwell as the recource gatherer, and I don't just want to make a bunch of followers. if someone could point me to a proper guide on how to mod don't starve together properly. instead of just.. change values. I'm already very familiar with lua and have been coding with it for years. I just don't know the definitions for don't starve and/or the paths to get the information I need. example problem I'm having at the moment in the "pickable" script

i need to be able to figure out which character is doing the picking so i can make him get extra recources for picking things. I've narrowed it down to DontStarveTogether>data>databundles>scripts>pickable around line 400 or so. is there a way to find out which character it is? eg. Wilson, Wolfgang, "Modded character name". and if you cant. then is there a function to call that returns when someone picks something with what they picked? 
 

one last thing, on a completely sepearte note is there a way to make winonas duct tape work on tools/armor? reparing a set amount of durability, eg. 75 for tools and 150 for armor

[Lalaoz]

regarding the pickable script, after some more playing around i figured out how to use the :AddTag() and :HasTag() to do exactly what i wanted. just add a custom tag to the character and change the pickable script.

[Maxposting]

YOU ARE IN THE WONG NEIGHBORHOOD.

Post it in main modding topic , not an closed of modded dlc sub topic